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MACHINE FOR SETTING UP BARRBLS.

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Patented Nov. 27, 1888.

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GEORGE M. NEWHALL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN BARREL AND STAVE COMPANY, OF OAMDEN, NEW

JERSEY.

NlACHlNE FOR SETTING UP BARRELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393.571, dated November 2'7, 1888,

Application filed March 12, 1888.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE M. NEWHALL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Machines for Setting up Barrels, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a barrel setting up or trussing machine with means for irmly holding the barrelhead in position while the barrel is being formed, and this object I attain as hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal sectional view oi sufficient of a barrel settingnp or trussing machine to illustrate my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the line l 2, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a perspective view ol' the exhaust-pipes and l'an forming part of the machine, and Fig. 4 is a view illustrating a modification.

The machine may be similar in general construction to many ol" those heretofore devised, my invention relating solely to the means for retaining the barrel-heads in position on the grooved stave-guiding heads of the machine.

A is one of the end frames of the machine, B B B2, tierods extending from one end frame, A, to the other; C O, the grooved stave receiving and guiding heads; and D, oneof the hoopdriving heads adapted to travel on the tielrods B B B, these heads carrying the hoop-drivers d and being operated by feed-screws d', one only of which is shown in the drawings.

The heads O @have stave-receiving grooves c @,into which the staves are fed from the ways e e at the rear of the machine, and on the face of each head O is formed a flange, f, against which the head no of the barrel is seated.

I form in the center of each stave-receiving head au opening, F, and to each head I attach a pipe, G, which I prefer to bend upward, as shown, so that it may communicate with a lon gitudinal pipe, H, which extends to an exhaust-fan, I, driven by any suitable means.

Each pipe G has, in the presentinstance, a eXible portion to allow its lower end to accommodate itself to the movements of the head O.

At the end of the pipe H, opposite the end Serial No. 167,010. (No model.)

connected to the exhaustfan, is a regulatingvalve, 7L, by which the partial vacuum in the pipe G can be regulated. Thus when the Valve is fully opened, air can enter the pipe H in quantity almost sufiicient to supply the fan I, whereas if the valve 7L is closed a partial vacuum may readily be maintained in the pipe, supposing, of course, that the openings in the heads O are closed.

Then a barrel is to be set up, the fan I is 6o started, and the heads x n: of the barrel are placed centrally upon the heads C O hearing upon the flanges f, which may, if desired, he packed to insure a reasonably tight joint. The partial vacu um maintained in the pipes H and G causes the pressure of air upon the barrelheads to hold the latter firmly upon the stavereceiving heads; but said barrel-heads can be moved to one side or the other to center them as the staves are fed around them; or the heads 7o may be forced from the heads O when subjected to sufficient strain, there being no positive locking of the barrel-heads to the heads C. The speed of the fan and the adjustment of the valve h are such as to maintain in the pipes G and H a partial vacuum sufficient for the purpose intended. Ina certain class of barrels, however-those, for inst-ance, in which oil is shi p pcd-the barrels are stowed upon their sides with the bunghole on top, and the grain 8o ofthe wood in the heads must be vertical, and as in making this class of barrels the bunghole is bored in a certain one of the staves prior to the setting up ol' the barrel the grain of the wood in the head must bear a certain relation t0 the stave having the bung hole. In setting up this class of barrels, therefore, the heads x are always placed upon the heads C of the machine in a certain position, and in order to prevent them from being turned around by 9o the staves as the latter are fed into the machine I provide each of the heads O with a number of small projecting pins, n, which engage with the barrel-heads and prevent the same from turning. The staves are so fed into the machine that the stave in which the bunghole is bored is in line with the grain of the wood composing the heads, and the conditions above referred to are secured.

In Fig. 4 I have shown lin place of the suc- 10o tion-pipes and fan a cylinder, F', having apiston, f', which may be connected by a piston-rod to any suitable operating device on the machine, thus accomplishing the purpose of the suctionpipes and fan, the latter, however, being preferred.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination of the stave-receiving heads of a barrel trussing or setting-up ma chine with suction or draft apparatus,whereby the heads of the barrel may be retained on the stave-receiving heads by pressure of air, all substantially as speced.

2. The combination of the stave-receiving heads having flanges forming bearings for the barrel-heads, with suction or draft apparatus, whereby the air may be exhausted from the to this specification in the presence of two sub- 3o scribing` Witnesses.

GEORGE M. NEWI-IALL.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM D. GONNER, HARRY SMITH. 

